Monsieur Ibrahim and The Flowers of the Qur'an (Le Cycle de l'invisible #2), Éric-Emmanuel SchmittThe book is set in a real district of 1960's Paris, which is described in detail. Momo always stops by the shop of the Turkic grocer, Mr. Ibrahim, and often shoplifts. After his stop in this small shop, he sets out to find a prostitute, but is turned down several times for lack of identification. Finally, he finds one who will offer her services, and they head off together. Momo forgets to bring a g...

A short, but beautiful audiobook experience. This is a story about what really is important in life and spirituality - and what living actually is, or should be. There are no simple solutions offered as to what is right or wrong, good or bad - Monsieur Ibrahim's philosophy is beyond simple moralist ideas.

I thought that Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt is like Frech Paul Coelho. But he suprised me that his books aren't so full of cheap spirituality. I loved Mister Ibrahim and flowers of Koran. No matter what religion we confess - if we get to know each other better, there can be friendship and love in propitious conditions.

This is one perfect example that sometimes, I don't have to find books. Books find me. I didn't know what to do with my bonus last time so I was scavenging Booksale for some good reads. I found this cheap book (60 pesos) containing two books by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt. The cover is from the movie based on the book and there's a picture of a handsome kid who played the main character (which attracted me somehow). I bought it and began reading the first book --- Monsiuer Ibrahim and the Flowers of t...

This is a charming little fairy tale about a Jewish orphan in Paris who becomes first the friend and then the adopted son of a Muslim grocer. I agree entirely with those who found this book to be the mirror image of "La vie devant soi" in which an aging Jewess looks after a Muslim orphan. There is then a persistent faction of novelists and film makers in France that endeavor to promote solidarity and love amongst all the various religious and ethnic communities in their nation. I like their good...

11-year-old Jewish Moses is being raised without affection by his ever-busy and unhappy, traumatised father. The unattractive and socially incompetent child finds a friend in old Mr Ibrahim, owner of a corner grocery shop. The calm and friendly/cheeky attitude to life of the Sufi Mr Ibrahim, worldly-wise and detached, help the boy to find his own way in life as 'Momo', as Ibrahim calls him. As a story of coping with life and of bridging cultural divides, it is both charming and thought-provoking...

Sad, but hopeful and charming tale of an extraordinary friendship between generations. I enjoyed my second Schmitt!

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The Art of SmilingWhat a beautiful love story involving a jewish teenager and a middle aged musslim!...And... at this very moment... after this startling beginning, I believe a short break is required — long enough to avoid that menacing wave of negative thoughts that I feel coming my way:"A love story between a middle aged guy and a teen?!""What does she mean by that?!""Gosh! What a pervert!”...In my defense, I feel obliged to say, that I'm definitely not a pervert, and I intend to prove it, in...

A charming story about forgiveness, love, humanity, religion without boundaries and at the same time, sad and funny.

“Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran” is so optimistic and life-affirming, a beautiful and warm story.Growing up with a distant father, the young protagonist gradually befriends an elderly shopkeeper, Monsieur Ibrahim, who offers him love, tenderness and wisdom. There is a lightness and charm to the story that helps balance out the consuming and serious topics of loneliness, love, friendship, trust etc. This story is so short and full of events that any sort of commenting on the detail...

Very quick and easy read. Despite its length, it's quite thought-provoking, funny at times too.

Enchanting and naif, this book goes beyond stereotypes and leaves the reader with a sense of closure and inward peace...Maria Carmo,Lisbon, 7th. September 2013.

This is a short book of two short novels. I found the first novel (Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran) to be so sentimental and cliché that I didn’t bother with the second one. The pearls of wisdoms offered by Monsieur Ibrahim almost made me throw the book at the wall. I just can’t stand corny platitudes that look beautiful on the surface and want to make you feel warm and fluffy, but are actually quite useless and immediately forgotten once you put the book down.

That's one of the shortest ”novels” I have ever read. It looks like a joke to put the word ”novel” on the cover, really.It was a re-read, I remembered some stuff, but not so much, I know I saw the movie as well back in 2007.While I do not loooove this particular book, I also didn't hate it. What disturbs me most is the superficial impression I got, I am sure this happened on my first lecture as well. The story is sort of nice, but to me it kind of feels like it is directly the scenario for a fil...

Translated into English as Monsieur Ibrahim and The Flowers of the Qur'an.Moses (aka Momo) lives with his father in the Parisian Jewish quarter, lonely, sad and attempting to survive as best as he can. To supplement his "earnings", he steals from wherever he manages, often times from the store of one Mr. Ibrahim, the only Arab living in the Jewish quarter. Eventually the two form a tight friendship, and Mr. Ibrahim ends up "saving" Moses.This was yet another highly recommended book, that just di...

A short story, written in a relaxed & funny way, about human kindness, which overrides any mistakes and religious impediments.It takes one hour, tops, to read it.

So cute <3

2/12: My first French novel! Very excited!Quel livre!As stated above, this book has the honor of being the first novel I've ever read in French. Although towards the end it was essentially One Bad Thing Happens After Another, I found it very sweet and funny at various points, with a jolting but overall happy ending. I definitely had to have Google Translate open as I read, just for a few words a page, but I think it's a great novel pour apprendre le français as well as for entertainment value on...

Did not like it that much...I've read Salmawy's translation...years later ...watched it as a movie! and still...'am not convinced! The much propaganda that happened concerning that book about how it represents a Muslim..and how he takes care of the Jewish boy...made me question after reading is that the "representation of an Arab and a Muslim" we've been all dying for..to correct our image in the Western World...?! Is that what Sufism should be!? Not convincing...it lacks something of its presen...